misunderstood

[onethirtytwo]

could you help to understand what the man said in this audio after "France has ..."
it is something about university or university itself

http://filekeeper.org/download/shared/Cambridge-cutmp3.net.mp3

 

[lauralie2]

It sounds like he's trying to say 'core ecoles', the core schools, meaning the Grandes Ecoles. Just my guess.